Welcome to Wakefield Cathedral

Christmas at Wakefield Cathedral 2024

05 November 2024

Celebrate the joy of Christmas at Wakefield Cathedral with our festive events programme.

Scroll down for event details and cathedral opening times over the Christmas period.

Weekly Reflection – O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be!

01 November 2024

This week the church celebrates the wonderful feast of All Saints, to whom our cathedral is dedicated. On this feast, churches up and down the country enjoy singing a number of rousing hymns whose lyrics and tunes are both majestic and glorious.

Eco Comment – All Saints and All Creatures

01 November 2024

Saturday is the feast of All Saints and our patronal festival. In many countries it is a fixed holiday and for many years was considered a ‘day of obligation’ so the faithful were expected to attend mass and ‘engage in rest from work and recreation’.

Eco Comment – CBD COP 16

25 October 2024

I am quite regularly confused by things that I read and hear so seeing this acronym was no different really. I was trying to work out why we were thinking about COP 16 when the last one that I wrote about was COP 28. Did the numbering go backwards? Or had I missed something?

Weekly Reflection – How to Be a Leader

25 October 2024

You wait for one election and then 2024 comes along and it appears half the planet is having a go at them. This year has seen the UK have a general election, several in continental Europe and in the next week or so the US will be deciding who will be running the last great superpower.